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Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.Read more...

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Introduction : what a man sees in life he sees in the newspaper --
Go to it, my southern brothers : the rise of the modern black press, the great migration, and the construction of urban black manhood --
Garvey must go : the black press and the making and unmaking of black male leadership --
The fraternity : Robert S. Abbott, John Sengstacke, and a new order in black (male) journalism --
A challenge to our manhood : Robert F. Williams, the civil rights movement, and the decline of the mainstream black press --
Walk the way of free men : Malcolm X, displaying the original man, and troubling the black press as the voice of the race --
Conclusion : now a new day is upon us.

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D'Weston Haywood.

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Clearly articulates how gender indelibly shapes racial justice and the Black Press' historical role in advancing it. Readers will benefit from Haywood's careful deconstructions of the complex, and at times, competing "manly visions" offered by Black newspapermen.--Black Perspectives For readers interested in the history of the black freedom struggle, this work delivers an alternative and important view of the actors involved in producing the black press.--Library Journal, Starred ReviewRead more...